Django Rest Framework: Disable field update after object is created

Question

I\'m trying to make my User model RESTful via Django Rest Framework API calls, so that I can create users as well as update their profiles.

However, as I go through

Answer 1

Another solution (apart from creating a separate serializer) would be to pop the username from attrs in the restore_object method if the instance is set (which means it's a PATCH / PUT method):

def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None):
    if instance is not None:
        attrs.pop('username', None)
    user = super(UserSerializer, self).restore_object(attrs, instance)
    user.set_password(attrs['password'])
    return user